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Merging Social Media
With Education
By Cindy Greco and Vivian Davis
Educators around the world are using YouTube to reach students. From Edutopia, to Khan Academy, to the YouTube movement for education, learners everywhere can learn virtually anything.
http://www.yout
ube.com/educati
on
Edutopia
Khan Academy
South Seneca, NY SchoolJanuary 2011, students at South Seneca Middle School began corresponding with students in Slovakia and Poland, sharing their experiences of life in central New York and learning about life in the partner countries.
Slovakia
Students conducted distance learning using Skype, wikipages, email, videos & websites, which are vital skills for 21st century literacy.
This project gave the students at South Seneca an
innovative way to improve their writing,
comprehension and technological skills. Materials
and test results from this program have been
presented at several teacher conferences in New York
State.
This e-twinning project
was funded with a grant
from the European
Union and designed to
foster learning
experiences that will
inspire new generations
to understand and
appreciate European
diversity & culture.
Dutc
h in
the D
igit
al
Era
‘We make use of state of the art-video
conferencing technology, allowing both Yale
and Cornell students to participate in the same
class taught by me, while being in different
locations.
We can all hear and see each other and have
different ways of classes in the future, and
collaborate in group study, much like in any
“normal” language classroom.’
Chrissy Hosea, Lecter in Dutch, Yale Univ.
Visiting Lecturer in Dutch, Cornell Univ.
In Fall 2011, Cornell & Yale universities launched a pilot program for teaching Dutch courses by video conferencing via Skype from Yale University.
A CORNELL - YALECOLLABORATION
BASED ON THE SUCCESS OF THE DUTCH DISTANCE
LEARNING PROGRAM,
CORNELL HAS JOINED WITH COLUMBIA
UNIVERSITY TO ADD ROMANIAN TO
THEIR COURSE LIST.
THE CORNELL-YALE COLLABORATION ADDED MODERN GREEK TO THE ROSTER AND
EXPANDED WITH EVEN MORE DUTCH
CLASSES.
http://education.skype.com/ A community to help teachers connect their students to the world
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To Sum Things Up…
G l o b a l C l a s s ro o m